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From: mcvax!memex.co.uk!peter@uunet.uu.net (Peter Ilieve)
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Subject: Re: 68881 upgrade for 3-50 (really DES chip socket)
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Date: 4 Apr 89 04:43:04 GMT
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auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) writes:
(here he quotes from someone unknown)
>>For your info, there is also an empty socket for HW support of DES using,
>>I think, an Intel chip.
...
>"/usr/include/sundev/desreg.h" on our 4.0 system:
...
>/*
> * Definitions of the AM Z8068 Data Ciphering Processor chip.
> */
>
>I think there's supposed to be a "D" after the "AM", as in "AMD"; in any
>case, it's not Intel.

It is AMD, but its name was AmZ8068.  It came from the period when AMD
believed the Zilog Z8000 family was the way to go (before they changed to
80x86 and long before 29000) and so had a Zilog-like number.

I knew my ``AmZ8000 Family Data Book'' (1980 vintage) would come in
useful one day :-)

	Peter Ilieve		peter@memex.co.uk